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2 Night Zen Den Disconnect to Reconnect Retreat

With Ira Ohm and Valerie Leeds

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Zen Den Yoga School & Wellness Retreat in Florida Program

Zen Den Yoga Schools instructors, Ira Ohm & Valerie Leeds, believe in offering a safe and nurturing environment for everybody. They have built an incredible experience by offering enlightening programs and retreats to disconnect to reconnect in body, mind and spirit, including ytt200 and ytt300hr school.

In the retreat schedule, guests will enjoy daily yoga and meditation, and on Thursdays Intro to Tai Chi classes The programs may also feature Shamanic Breath-Work classes, Yoga Sutra classes, (depending whether or not school is in session).

Daily schedule

  • 08:00 : Morning meditation in the studio

  • 08:45 : Hatha Chakra flow yoga

  • 3:30 : Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa flow yoga

Retreat overview

Guests will be taught to make their own nutritional breakfast and lunch smoothies during their stay, so they are empowered to learn how to take the skills home with them. Once a week guests have evening tai chi class between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. On Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm, the facilitators, Ira Ohm and Valerie Leeds, will lead interactive group discussions around selected Yoga Sutras when school is in session. During each stay, guests will receive massage and acupuncture treatment around their yoga class schedule.

Location

Boca Raton is one of the most fun and active cities in South Florida. In a tropical setting, beautiful homes line the streets around long stretches of white beaches. With tons of waterfront on the intra-coastal and Atlantic Ocean, you will find lots of biking paths, themed restaurants, shopping areas, and a great night life. All within about 15-25 minute bike ride, guests will discover boutiques, galleries, cafes, shopping malls, art and marine life museums, libraries, beaches, water sports, grocery stores, and lots of restaurants.

Accommodation

The Zen Den Yoga School & Wellness Retreat provide a restorative, heart-opening and zen experience. Small intimate groups will enjoy a private or shared rooms and are invited to participate in daily meditation and yoga classes. Guests will get to experience the beauty of the tropics year round with sunny days relaxing by a pool and balmy nights easing muscles in a hot tub. The beach is always just a bike ride away. Downtown Boca Raton is never far if it should be sight seeing that is desired. For dinners, there will be access to shop and cook in a communal kitchen if this is preferred, with markets nearby, or we enjoy recommending the best places to dine out at the favorite restaurants on our list.

Disconnect to Reconnect Retreat

  • Shared Blue and white (2 Twin beds) – $750.00

  • Shared Queen Bed (2 guests) – $1,500.00

  • Private Queen (single guest) – $1,150.00

  • King with En Suite Bathroom (2 guests) – $2,000.00

  • Private King En Suite (single guest) – $1,300.00

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Teachers

Ira Ohm

Ira Ohm


Ira Schneider Ohm, EYRT 500, founded Zen Den Yoga Studio in 2008, Zen Den Yoga School in 2009, and Zen Den Retreat Center in 2013. He has always been blessed with an awareness of something larger then himself. As a boy he embraced practicing Pranayama, meditation, and positive thinking. In his first yoga class Ira knew that this practice was like a coming home, three months later he went to Nicaragua and got his 200 hour yoga teacher training c...More

Ira Schneider Ohm, EYRT 500, founded Zen Den Yoga Studio in 2008, Zen Den Yoga School in 2009, and Zen Den Retreat Center in 2013. He has always been blessed with an awareness of something larger then himself. As a boy he embraced practicing Pranayama, meditation, and positive thinking. In his first yoga class Ira knew that this practice was like a coming home, three months later he went to Nicaragua and got his 200 hour yoga teacher training certification.

Upon completion of his YTT 200 with School Yoga Institute, Ira immediately started to teach private and large group classes in Boca Raton, Florida. His strong entrepreneurial background made the creation of Zen Den Yoga Studio the next logical step. Within eleven months he returned to Guatemala for his 500 and 800 hour certifications in order to launch Zen Den Yoga School. He fell in love with the culture, the nature and the Mayan people. He decided in 2009, along with a few other inspired yogis, to build a sustainable yoga farm on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. The Yoga Farm is a retreat center and a yoga school. Ira still leads retreats to the magical energy vortex on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

Much of Ira’s training has been deep in the world of shamanism. His skills of astral travel and ability to see into people make a significant difference in people’s lives. His teachings bridge the gap between our illusion of maya and true consciousness. Ira loves sharing his deep knowledge and love of the Sivananda tradition of yoga, Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa, restorative yoga, and shamanic breath-work with his students, retreat guests and the South Florida community.

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Valerie Leeds

Valerie Leeds


Valerie Leeds is an ERYT500, and a dynamic wellness entrepreneur teaching people to access their best selves in mind, body and spirit for 28 years.

Valerie is also Certified as a Bodywork & Energy Therapist and a Health Coach. She owns and facilitates Zen Den Yoga School & Wellness Retreat Center with her husband, Ira, in Boca Raton, Florida, where they guide people in disconnecting to ...More

Valerie Leeds is an ERYT500, and a dynamic wellness entrepreneur teaching people to access their best selves in mind, body and spirit for 28 years.

Valerie is also Certified as a Bodywork & Energy Therapist and a Health Coach. She owns and facilitates Zen Den Yoga School & Wellness Retreat Center with her husband, Ira, in Boca Raton, Florida, where they guide people in disconnecting to reconnect.

Valerie developed her unique ability to connect mentally and emotionally with people on a deeper spiritual level through her first certification in Bodywork & Energy Therapy at the The Academy, (originally located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, now in Stamford, New York and called the Harrison Center for Personal Development). The Academy of Natural Healing has been an alternative education center and school offering diverse natural healing programs run by Director, Lewis Harrison, an internationally respected visionary, author, speaker, trainer and coach. Here she found like minds and developed an understanding of how managing our mindsets can be life altering, and our bio-magnetic fields intersect with and impact our physical and mental bodies.

She continued expanding her expertise in healing and transformation training through multiple disciplines: Access Consciousness and Energy Transformation coursework; Summit Education; The Gratitude Training; Masterful Living; and Compass Coaching. She was a student turned coach during this decade of work, which gave her many hours with clients one on one, both on the massage table and off, and later as President of Kevin Heaphy Fitness Studio. This boutique studio, in Soho, New York City, offered personal training, yoga, pilates, bodywork and energy therapy, personal development coaching, along with a juice bar and cafe in a gorgeous 5,000 square foot store front. Valerie cultivated a set of tools based on the premise that human potential is limited by our belief systems to bring a fresh look at how your mind and consciousness can be adapted on a moment to moment basis to live life in greater mastery, and she teaches how to deepen our connection to what she calls our “internal barometer.”

During this time she also went through a number of years of sales training and psychology working with Equinox International and Advanced Marketing Seminars; Staten Island Boat Sales; and AOL Time Warner, and others, which gave Valerie a diverse foundation to teach, train and educate people how to shift their belief systems and behavior. She realized that there are many barriers people form to resist change and personal growth, one of them is being out of alignment in our physical health. She spent a year living in Colorado deepening her own practice while she got Certified as a Dr. Sears Health Coach in order to give people a system to follow a simple healthy lifestyle.

Over the last two decades Valerie Leeds has created many programs that give people tools to step into their “next level,” whatever the category of life their desire may be: relationships, career, spiritual growth, physical fitness– all of her creations will give people a vehicle to create greater ease, joy and greatness in their lives– Language of Energy, Energy of Language Course; Invigorate U: A.R.C. Angel Coaching Program; Extreme Concepts for Golf Mind Coaching; Be The Blossom Workshop; and My Voice Matters Worldwide Workshops for children.

These days she can be found teaching at Zen Den Yoga School & Wellness Retreat, and being a loving wife to Ira and step-mom to their fifteen year old Hali. Testimonials and references available upon request.

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